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Were You There? (When They Crucified My Lord)

by: Paul Robeson; Lawrence Brown

Victor (19742-9A)

Publication date: 1925

Topics: Spiritual, 78rpm

Contributor: Internet Archive

Language: English

Bass with piano.

Digitized from a shellac record, at 78 revolutions per minute. Four stylii were used to transfer this record.They are 3.8 mil truncated conical, 2.3 mil truncated conical, 2.8 mil truncated conical, 3.3 mil truncated conical. These were recorded flat and then also equalized with Turnover: 375.0, Rolloff: -12.0.

The preferred version suggested by an audio engineer at George Blood, L.P. is the equalized version recorded with the 3.3 mil truncated conical stylus, and has been copied to have the more friendly filename.

Matrix number: 19742-A
Catalog number: 19742-9A

Notes

The recording on the other side of this disc: Steal Away

Addeddate: 2017-02-14 17:39:30

Boxid: IA1562103

Ccnum: asr

Closed captioning: yes

Collection-catalog-number: GBIA0000960A

External-identifier: urn:matrix_no:19742-A

External_metadata_update: 2019-04-13T18:20:36Z

Genre: Spiritual

Identifier: 78_were-you-there-when-they-crucified-my-lord_paul-robeson-lawrence-brown_gbia0000960a

Location: USA

Run time: 00:03:11

Scanner: Internet Archive Python library 1.4.0

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Reviewer: Jon Smeltz - - June 3, 2020
Subject: Restored Version

Restoration to enhance using iZotope RX7 v7.01 and FabFilter Pro Q2 M/S EQ

Reviewer: arc-sam - - April 26, 2017
Subject: [1925]

This song was first printed in 1899, and is generally believed to have been composed by African-American slaves earlier in the 19th century. This type of song is known as a spiritual, a song put together by enslaved African Americans that expresses Christian values as well as the hardships of slavery. The Episcopal church took this song into their hymnal in 1940, and it was the first time a spiritual made it into a major American hymnal. This song was also a favorite of Mahatma Gandhi. Here's another spiritual called 'This Little Light of Mine'. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOZJg2KyP5M [date source http://www.78discography.com/vic19500.html]

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